I'm new to GTA IV, so I have a few questions. I hope that somebody can help me. Please excuse my bad english, I'm german.

1. There are 2 add ons I think, but how are the exactly installing steps? GTA IV --> Patch --> Add ons --> Mods? If I want first play the GTA IV main game (and finally the add ons) is it already possible to install the add ons?

By the way, I only have to install the newest patch, right?

2. Is Icenhancer 2.1 or ENB graphic mod better? Icenhancer is configurable, I think, what are the best settings, so that it looks most naturally? I've read that the sunset and night is bad with Icenhancer.

Works Icenhancer also with the newest Patch?

3. Which one is the best blood mod? And is there a mod which brings the original names for cars, municipalities etc. (so that everything has original names)?

4. Are there any other good mods for graphic or other things or is there a mod pack where all good mods are inside? car mods seems to be very important, but there are soo many more mods.

Now lets say you want to download a weapon, you'll get a .wtd and .wdr file which need to be imported in the weapons.img. To do this just double click weapons.img and hit the big 'import' button now select the the files (the .wdr and .wft). If you've done it correctly you shouldn't get an error and the weapon you replaced is highlighted (in blue)

If you're done with importing (you can import several weapons at once) hit save. After saving you can exit SparkIV and the mod is installed.

You can follow this process for vehicles and player clothing too just open up the corresponding image (and carefully read the readme provided, this will give the same instructions and often some additional instructions for other files you need to replace).

P.s. Launch your game through 'LaunchGtaIV' once you've installed mods

For scriptmods you'll need an asiloader and scripthook.dll, the easiest scriptmod to start with is simple native trainer since it also gives clear instructions on where to get these files and where to place them:

You will need EITHER Alexander Blade's ASI loader (dsound.dll), or Listener's xliveless (xlive.dll) or Yaasil (dsound.dll) in order to run this. The ASI loader also needs to be copied into the GTAIV main directory. Be aware that you need to copy the ASI loader also to EFLC if you happen to have that version.

So to be clear, you also need scripthook along with one of these 3 files (which can be found inside the simple native trainer pack for which I posted the link). So xliveless isn't the only option out there, it actually disables games for windows live and changes the savegame location so I personally prefer dsound.dll. You can't play multiplayer anymore with xliveless

The blood mod from the link I gave you is pretty bloody yes. But it's not that unrealstic. The excessive blood you see on the screenshots is only when you keep shooting a corpse. If you just shoot someone once it'll be a pool of blood and a blood stain on the spot where you shot him.

As for the difference between patches, a few minor things were changed:

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· fixed a bug causing tree leaves to look transparent
· fixed a bug that prevented uploading of rendered videos to Social Club when attaching certain music tracks
· fixed for clip capture "OFF" slowdowns occurring when near water's edge
· exposed "detonate" in custom key mapping options menu for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned so users can remap "down" arrow key

Most mods are compatible for both patches however , but most of them have been optimised for 1.0.4.0. Like Icehancer for example. I use 1.0.7.0. myself and never experienced any problems with mods made for 1.0.4.0.

I don't know about the newest icenhancer, never tried it . I'd say try a few different ones out to see which one you like best. Just make sure you have a backup that you can place back every time you want to uninstall one.

Is there also a mod which replaces the existing cars with the same cars but which better textures? Ich mean not new cars, only better textures for the already existing cars.

I've read that with 1.0.4.0 the Icenhancer mod looks better.

I have seen that there are several editions of the icenhancer. Which one is best? I'm looking for one where the daylight is not so flashy and there should be good sunset and sunrise light (orange like in unmodified GTA).

Still the second most downloaded graphics mod, if you'd like to see some screens I've got plenty:

The only bug is the red-sky bug you'll find with most graphics mod, it's when you look in certain angles the sky turns red. I'm not really bothered by it since the beauty of the mod makes up for that bug

I've only used Icenhancer 1.25 and don't think it has any ugly features (except for the red-sky bug) but I'd suggest browsing through the site to look at the various ENB's and just check the pictures to see if it's what you want. Some people say icenhancer 1.25 is to bright so I'm no sure if you'd like it

Is not the newest version always the best? Icenhancer 2.1 should have lot of improvments. There is also a configuration tool, do you knwo if I can also adjust the sunset color and the daylight brightness?